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Show modern Miss Mary Losey is the only woman member of the Association of Documentary Film Producers, Rockefeller Center, New York, an organization about one year old and whose purpose is to produce with social significance. There are sixty-five full members in the association as-sociation and forty-five associates. They stand for spreading more information in-formation about housing, progressive progres-sive education, flood control, slum clearance and a lot of other movements. Miss Losey, who fills the office of secretary, says that documentary docu-mentary film producing is a wide open field for women who are qualified. She studied this kind of motion picture work in England, then came back and helped to organize or-ganize the American group. Mnie. Pierre Casgrain, wife of the speaker of the House of Commons Com-mons at Ottawa, Canada, must feel deeply relieved that her work for the vote in Quebec is finally end- ed, or at least that part of the battle has been won. For winning the franchise is only the beginning begin-ning of citizenship preparation and fulfillment. For eighteen years the women of the province have been crusading crusad-ing and one wonders If they will soon begin to seek representation in Legislature at Quebec. There are few women members in any Provincial government, only three in British Columbia, one in Manitoba, Mani-toba, and one in Alberta. Dr. Lillian Gilbreth of Mont-clair, Mont-clair, New Jersey, is one of the country's most famous industrial engineers and the mother of eleven children. Soon after graduating gradu-ating from the University of California Cali-fornia she married Frank Gil- ' breth, also an engineer, and they worked and planned together until un-til his death, when Mrs. Gilbreth, after a family council, decided to carry on the work they both loved. Mrs. Bessie Q. Mott, retired president of the Soroptimist club, recently founded the Executive Women's Association to help women wo-men over thirty-five secure jobs. The organization works on the plan of the "Forty Plus Clubs" for men. Mrs. Mildred Patterson Bull was the first woman to be sworu in to 6erve on a grand jury duty in New York county. She was once a member mem-ber of a Federal jury. |